July 21, 2015: A lone RAGBRAI tent is pitched on the west side of the original Eldora school building. Every window on this side was blown out in a hailstorm Aug. 9, 2009. Open photo in new window/tab for larger view.
In September 2014, the Eldora-New Providence school board approved the demolition of the 1916 building that had been the high school until the early 1990s and then ENP Middle School until 2008. But a year after demolition was approved — as you can see in the photo of RAGBRAI campers — it was still there. A state grant was given in May 2015 to help pay for the demolition.
Eldora-New Providence began whole-grade sharing with Hubbard-Radcliffe in 2007, making this building (and later additions) superfluous. The two districts, together as South Hardin, have never consolidated, and won’t until at least the middle of the next decade.
UPDATE 7/21/22: Corrected year sharing begain.